Big City Secrets

Big City Secrets is the first studio album by Joseph Arthur, released by Real World Records on March 11, 1997. Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno contribute backing vocals on the song "Mercedes."

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Joseph Arthur. 

Album credits

  • "Big City Secret"
    • Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
    • Roger Beaujolais: vibes
    • Martyn Barker: treated tubular kit
    • Simon Edwards: bass
    • Markus Dravs: keyboards, desert storm & gravel percussion
  • Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
  • Roger Beaujolais: vibes
  • Martyn Barker: treated tubular kit
  • Simon Edwards: bass
  • Markus Dravs: keyboards, desert storm & gravel percussion
  • "Mercedes"
    • Joseph Arthur: harmonica, guitar and vocals
    • Martyn Barker: drums
    • Simon Edwards: bass
    • Markus Dravs: corn horn
    • Roger Beaujolais: Venetian xylophone
    • Peter Gabriel: backing vocals
    • Brian Eno: backing vocals
  • Joseph Arthur: harmonica, guitar and vocals
  • Martyn Barker: drums
  • Simon Edwards: bass
  • Markus Dravs: corn horn
  • Roger Beaujolais: Venetian xylophone
  • Big City

    Big City may refer to:

  • Big City (comics), a fictional future city in Antarctica
  • The Big City (1928 film), directed by Tod Browning
  • Big City (1937 film), a 1937 film, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracy
  • Big City (1948 film), a 1948 film directed by Norman Taurog
  • The Big City (1963 film), directed by Satyajit Ray
  • Big City (Merle Haggard album), a 1981 album by Merle Haggard
  • "Big City" (Merle Haggard song), the title track and a No. 1 country hit from the above album
  • Big City (Billy Crawford album), a 2005 album from Filipino singer Billy Crawford
  • "Big City" (Spacemen 3 song), a single by the English alternative rock band Spacemen 3
  • "Big City", a song by Dutch singer Tol Hansse about the Dutch city Amsterdam
  • New York City, often colloquially referred to as the Big City
  • London, often referred to as the Big City
  • See also

  • World's largest cities
  • Big City (1948 film)

    Big City is a 1948 film.

    Reception

    According to MGM records the movie was not a hit, earning $910,000 in the US and Canada and $489,000 elsewhere, making a loss to the studio of $850,000.

    References

    External links

  • Big City at the Internet Movie Database
  • Big City at TCMDB
  • Big City (Merle Haggard album)

    Big City is the 33rd studio album by Merle Haggard, released in 1981. It was his debut on the Epic label after ending his association with MCA. Big City peaked at number three on the Billboard Country Album charts and number 161 on the Pop Album charts. It was an RIAA-certified Gold album.

    Background

    After five years at MCA Records, Haggard jumped to Epic in 1982, and the move appeared to spark his creativity; he wrote or co-wrote eight of the LP's twelve tracks, including its two #1 singles, "Big City" and "My Favorite Memory." Haggard entered the studio with his band the Strangers and his mentor Lewis Talley and, in a two-day marathon recording session, produced enough songs for this release, plus Haggard’s 1982 LP, Going Where the Lonely Go. Many of the songs on Big City explore the struggle of the working man amid the complexities and challenges of urban life and aging.

    The other single release, “Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver),” peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and also won the Academy of Country Music 1982 Song of the Year.

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    Big City Secrets

    by: Joseph Arthur

    A porcupine
    Crawling out from inside of your mind
    Like you growing a crown of thorns
    But you're no messiah
    You think more like a spider
    'Cause guilty hearts beat upside down
    Silver hubcaps replcaed your eyes
    As you went spinning on a daydream down
    Forgiving the road every inch for miles
    If your tyres survive
    You know your heart will explode
    And if this song was a sponge
    Soaked in your blood
    Well then I guess the story would be told
    A fateful day
    You became a spider
    As I fed you blood from my nose
    Now you're just like me




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